FIGHTING
COVID-19 TOGETHER
RAPIDLY PRODUCED FACE SHIELDS
Within the first month of the COVID-19 outbreak , a team led by mechanical engineering professor Alex Leonessa and undergraduate student Liam Chapin organized the mass production of face shields after rapidly prototyping and running 15 designs by staff from Carilion Clinic and LewisGale Hospital . In this photo , a group of Carilion health care workers wear the face shields produced by the team .
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COURTESY ALEXANDER LEONESSA
FINDING COVID-19 FASTER
Mechanical engineering associate professor Jiangtao Cheng and electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Wei Zhou have developed an ultrasensitive biosensing method that could dramatically shorten the amount of time required to verify the presence of the COVID-19 virus in a sample .
The method uses a combination of engineered surfaces and lasers to quickly identify the contents of a sample . This method takes place in a fraction of the time of current common methods .
COURTESY AREF VANDADI
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60 FIGHTING COVID-19 • VIRGINIA TECH MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT • 2019-2020